Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next few hours they went among the high street shops , first searching through the shelves of Joseph Toms , Toys and Fancy Goods , for novelties , then looking among the tiny cupboards of Charles Weaver , Apothecary , sampling the sweet-tasting , harmless powders on their fingers and mixing the brightly-coloured liquids in beakers . |
| 2 | The early 1880s also witnessed some quite extraordinary scenes of disorder when an organisation calling itself the ‘ Skeleton Army ’ mobilised these same roughs against the Salvation Army , attacking their meetings and bombarding the houses of sympathisers . |
| 3 | As they move upwards they lose their nuclei and synthesize the special proteins like keratin that give the skin its protective toughness . |
| 4 | They preferred to have a quick yoghurt at their desks and spend the rest of the time shopping . |
| 5 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 6 | The two dogs were whining softly in the back of their throats and sniffing the air as if distressed . |
| 7 | While such statements could be interpreted as being passive rather than negative in terms of the advancement of building surveying , the Report went on to state that building surveyors ‘ have been less ebullient [ than quantity surveyors ] in recent years — partly because they are less numerous and their work less homogeneous or well defined ; but , to a large extent because they have made a less prolonged and concerted effort to develop their skills and explore the horizons of opportunity , although there has of late been a welcome resurgence in this respect ’ . |
| 8 | In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ . |
| 9 | The third , and most interesting part of the research , is to explain the persistence into the 20th century of large numbers of local and regional designs of agricultural edge-tools and the failure of large manufacturers to standardise their products and reduce the number of lines until after the Second World War . |
| 10 | Pistoliers are young nobles , knights ' sons who are not old or experienced enough to win their spurs or join the Reiksguard . |
| 11 | A limited , but informed , middle-class electorate ( composed of less than one in six adult males ) enjoyed the right to elect persons of calibre and substance to represent their opinions and serve the national interest in the House of Commons . |
| 12 | They 're all overjoyed about it , but before they make their plans and get the sales force excited , they want to be … quite sure … that you are … completely fit . ’ |
| 13 | I would urge DTC to reconsider their plans and leave the 11.17 service alone , perhaps every half hour would suit . |
| 14 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 15 | To analyse what managers actually do , Mintzberg categorised their activities and calculated the amount of time they spent on each . |
| 16 | Instead , he protected less profitable state farms by writing off their debts and delaying the implementation of a new procurement pricing system . |
| 17 | Er at least thirty percent of my business erm have either stopped their accounts or reached the limit of their patience . |
| 18 | Eventually these advantages were to tell against England in the war , but in its early phases such disparity was of less account , and the ability of the two kings to mobilize the financial resources of their realms and to command the support of the nobility was to be of greater consequence . |
| 19 | Then they can go back to asking each other where they got their blow-drys and leave the rest of us in peace . ’ |
| 20 | Now , however , they were not taking up corporate subscriptions for their institutions but tapping the resources of their friends and contacts . |
| 21 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 22 | Also they should encourage the objectors to the railway 's extension to realise that there is a case for considerable numbers of cars drivers being prepared to leave their cars and let the train take the strain . |
| 23 | They are concerned , which makes it all the more alarming that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen continue to sit on their backsides and endorse the TUC 's policy . |
| 24 | Two agents take the property on their books and split the commission , whoever arranges the sale . |
| 25 | Alternatively , in the present economic climate , the power relationships between the different agencies may result in professionals vying to serve the needs of prospective clients since they have vested interests in defining the needs of their clients and expanding the numbers they serve in order to safeguard their own jobs . |
| 26 | Each round of war and ‘ peace process ’ drew the superpowers into yet more sophisticated rearming of their clients and increased the tactical and strategic threats to the participants . |
| 27 | We shall first raise some questions which seem in need of answers , and then discuss some observations about their characteristics ; in Section 3.8 , we shall propose an account of their intensional structure , and in the remainder of the chapter show how this reflects their characteristics and answers the questions , as well as making possible coverage of some further data . |
| 28 | It reared high above their heads and made the river market into a town of ants , the meaningless scurryings of insects . |
| 29 | The finale is an instrumental where Tim 's guitar finally bursts into life , turning wah way clichés on their heads and encouraging the audience to forget Betty Boo and ‘ Do the Dermo ’ . |
| 30 | The finale is an instrumental where Tim 's guitar finally bursts into life , turning wah way clichés on their heads and encouraging the audience to forget Betty Boo and ‘ Do the Dermo ’ . |